Yesterday we celebrated Christmas with Austin's family. This is our yearly tradition on the 26th. We drove up first thing that morning. We get together with his parents, 2 sisters, their husbands and kids. Its always fun to see Colby play with his cousins plus it makes Christmas last a little longer for us so its not so depressing the night of the 25th when it has all come and gone.
When we got there it was just us so Colby got to play and enjoy Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw all to himself...he loved walking in and out of their house...they have a closed in patio that he could open and get outside he loved that!
When the rest of the family arrived we ate lunch. Colby had already had lunch by that point...if he doesn't eat by 12:30 he gets grumpy! But ofcourse he nibbled some again when we all ate. After lunch was present time! Colby opened one truck up and was done! By this point it was 2 and he is usually napping by 1. We hated to do it but we had to go lay him down for a nap. He didn't fuss he ended up going to sleep and sleeping for about 2 hours...he missed all the presents. I hate he wasn't in there for that part but he's not that into opening presents anyway so he probably would have just fussed on and off. He got some really neat things though...he got several trucks, some books, puzzles, pillow pet, and many other things! I think we could open up a toy shop now after all of our Christmases! Austin's nieces Shelbi and Maggie were ofcourse very much into it...they are 4 and 6 so they loved opening up stuff! They got lots of little petshop toys, clothes, books, games and puzzles. Soon after we finished unwrapping Colby got up. So he got to spend a little while playing and running around with his cousins.
We had promised shelbi she could spend the night with us so we packed up around 4:30 and headed to the apartment. I was excited to keep Shelbi for the night. I knew that Colby would love playing with her plus we used to keep her all the time when she was a baby so it was fun to have a little girl around. We got back to the apartment and they got to open up one Christmas gift and play with it. Austin went to get us dinner...he came back and we all ate then they played some more and watched a movie. At 7:30 we bathed Colby then put Shelbi in the tub with him...they had a blast! We read them a story and put Colby to bed...we knew Shelbi wouldn't be ready for bed quite yet so we let her stay up and watch tv with us then we played Dominoes. We all went to bed around 10:15. I slept in the bed with Shelbi and Austin slept with Colby...although he had to get up around 3 b/c Colby woke up and was all excited that his daddy was in the bed with him...he's not used to sleeping with anyone else!
We all woke up around 7 I think Colby was the first one up. Colby and Shelbi played and watched cartoons then they ate breakfast and we all got dressed and ready for the day! As soon as we got ready we dropped Shelbi back off with Austin's parents and headed back to Nola. It was a wonderful Christmas and I can't believe another Christmas season has come and gone! Each year becomes more and more special with Colby. We are very blessed with 2 wonderful families! Looking forward to what 2011 brings!
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